Vincent Enyeama

IKN salutes Nigeria's goalkeeper.

Real Madrid, sign this dude up now. You'll need him later this year as he's the only goalie I've seen who can stop Lionel.

Messi 4, Arsenal 1

In 21 minutes he tears apart one of the best teams in Europe and makes it look easy, then adds a fourth goal just before the end for the fun of it. As a pal said, "It's like me playing against my three year old boy".

We are not worthy.

UPDATE: Watch for yourself, here's the match summary video:

The Friday OT: Messi/Maradona

This is a one-of-a-kind, flabbergasting goals compilation video.

What the dudes over at Argentine telly program 'TVR' did was to splice together goals scored by Lionel Messi with similar goals scored previously by Maradona. The result is 1) sublime football footage and 2) really really spooky to see how similar they are.

A special Friday OT for those that understand the game. Enjoy five minutes of beauty, if you're Castilian-challenged fret not over the Spanish used here and there (you're missing little, the action is everything) and last but not least enjoy the Manu Chao track that accompanies, 'La Vida Tombola'.

Si yo fuera Maradona, viviría como él......

Videogame news from Peru

This hurt my head when I read it.

A screenshot

It's been a while since I had a real wild thing about videogames. Back in the 18th century I was pretty good at the arcade version of Centipede (remember that zippy ball control, guys?) but if the game mentioned underneath turns out to be a hit then I'll know that I'm now old, old, and three times old. I think I'll just translate the start of this review of the game and leave it without further comment (except that this is a faithful translation .....and I'm not on drugs):

""Inka Games" is the Peruvian company of businessman Aldo Mujica that has just launched a videogame in which President Obama joins forces with tennis star Rafael Nadal and Argentine footballer Lionel Messi to save the last surviving family of panda bears that has been kidnapped by aliens........"